Loy Laurine (Oman) Christensen (2024)
BRINKS, CHRISTENSEN, MILLS, MUSMAKER, OMAN, REEVES, RODINE, SEITZ, WALTER
Posted By: Pat Hochstetler
Date: 6/9/2024 at 15:00:49
Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
May 29, 2024August 21, 1938 – May 21, 2024
Loy Laurine (Oman) Christensen died May 21, 2024 at 6:30 p.m. at the Creston Specialty Care in Creston, Iowa.
Celebration of Life Services were held at 10 a.m. today (Wednesday, May 20) at First Baptist Church in Creston, with Pastor Dave Tebbenkamp officiating. Services will be live-streamed at a link under her obituary. Burial will be in the Graceland Cemetery in Creston. In lieu of flowers, memorials are to the First Baptist Church in Loy’s name.
Loy Laurine Oman was born on Aug. 21, 1938, to Edith Laurine (Rodine) Oman and Ernest Frederick Oman in Gothenburg, Neb. Loy attended a country school until 6th grade and then went to the Callaway Public Schools in Callaway, Neb., until she was graduated in 1955. During the time that she was growing up she attended Morning Star EUB church where she accepted Christ as her personal savior at the age 11. She was active in 4-H and Youth Fellowship activities.
Following high school, she attended Westmar College in LeMars, Iowa. Here, she met her husband Bob and they were married on Aug. 22, 1956. She took a two-year teaching program and taught second grade until Bob graduated in 1959. There first daughter Tamara Dawn was born here in 1959.
Following college, they moved back to Bob’s home farm in Nebraska where they farmed with his dad (Lester). During this time, two daughters Crystal Anne in 1960 and Lynne Laurine in 1961 were born in Hastings, Neb.
They then moved to LaJunta, Colo., where Bob worked for American Loan Company. Later they moved to Creston, where Bob was a loan officer for PCA. During this time, their fourth daughter Debra Jo was born in 1964. They then were transferred to Albion, Neb., and Winterset, Iowa, before moving back to Creston. While living in Winterset, Loy graduated from Simpson College and taught 6th grade in Winterset.
In Creston, Loy taught in the Creston Public School system until her retirement in 1999. She loved teaching and especially liked working with 8th graders. She was active in her church First Baptist and several clubs. She loved having Bible studies in her home.
She loved traveling and company. She was never happier than when her house was full of people. (We often teased her that she should have installed a revolving door since so many people came in and out.) Bob and Loy loved to travel and took 16 cruises and had a timeshare in Mazatlan, Mexica for 18 years.
She is survived by three daughters, Tamara (Steve) Reeves of Creston, Crystal (Bruce) Musmaker of Asbury, Iowa, and Debra (John) Walter of Quincy, Ill.; grandchildren, Courtney (Aaron) Brinks of Waukee, Jessica Seitz of West Des Moines, Curtis (Kassandra) Seitz of Waukee, Kendra Musmaker of Iowa City, Kayla Musmaker of Asbury, Matthew (Sara) Reeves of Ankeny, Isaac (Kayla) Walter of Quincy, Ill., and Alex Walter of East Lyme, Conn.; great-grandchildren, Annalise, Katelynn and Harper Brinks, Amelia and Theo Seitz, and Jason Walter; and sister-in-law, Lois Mills of Lincoln, Neb.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Bob; daughter, Lynne; grandson, David; parents, Ernest and Edith Oman; parent-in-law, Lester and Florence Christensen; her brothers, Carroll and Donald; her sister, Kerry Anne; and brother-in-law, Frank Mills.
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